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⭐ Mission
Join Qonto as a Senior Strategic Finance Business Partner and play a pivotal role in shaping our business vision. You will be the dedicated financial partner to our VP Upmarket and our Portugal Director, own the consolidation of Qonto's global revenue performance. This is a unique hybrid role, deliberately designed at the intersection of central Strategic Finance and regional business partnering, covering some of our highest-growth strategic priorities.
👩💻🧑💻 As a Senior Strategic Finance Business Partner at Qonto, you will
- Act as the dedicated Financial Business Partner for the VP Upmarket and Country Director, guiding them in their strategic business decisions while guaranteeing financial performance.
- Serve as the Regional FP&A for Portugal, managing full-cycle budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for both markets.
- Own the consolidation of Qonto's global revenue performance — act as the "control tower" for group-level financial figures, setting the cadence for deep dives and challenging business owners on their metrics.
- Autonomously leverage AI tools and automation to build scalable workflows, accelerate financial analysis, and improve the quality of outputs within your perimeter.
🤔 What you can expect
- Market/Team Context: A newly created, highly impactful hybrid role within the Strategic Finance team, supporting both central and regional scopes in a fast-scaling environment. This role was designed to cover four of Qonto's most strategic financial gaps simultaneously: Upmarket growth, new market expansion, and group revenue consolidation.
- Methodologies, how we work, and what we value: We apply the "Qonto Way" (inspired by Lean management) to continuously improve our processes. We value high autonomy, deep business acumen, and an assertive yet highly collaborative approach.
- Examples of successful projects we recently worked on: Structuring the financial framework for new market entries, building the unit economics model for the Upmarket segment, and revamping Qonto's revenue consolidation process.
- Tools we use: Advanced financial modeling tools, Excel/Google Sheets, Anaplan, and cutting-edge AI and automation solutions to streamline Strategic Finance processes.
🤝 About your future manager
- Their background: You will report directly to Nathalie, our Strategic Finance Director. She started her career in a Big 4 firm before moving into corporate FP&A roles across Business Partnering and Revenue at tech and entertainment companies like Criteo, Ubisoft, Solocal, and Activision-Blizzard. She joined Qonto and leads a talented Strategic Finance team of five people.
- What do they bring to the team? Nathalie brings extensive expertise in fast-growing and business transformation environments. She will support you in developing your scope, provide you with the keys to master your topics, and foster your continuous growth and learning.
🏅 About You
- FP&A Process Excellence: You have at least 6 years of demonstrated experience in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, month-end closing, and management reporting in fast-paced, scaling organizations.
- Financial Modeling Proficiency: You have a strong ability to build financial models, dashboards, and reporting systems from scratch, translating operational data into strategic insights.
- Business Partner Communication: You possess excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to align multiple stakeholders through clear financial storytelling and translate financial data into actionable insights.
- Stakeholder Influence & Trade-offs: You are assertive and capable of autonomously assessing cross-functional financial trade-offs, confidently escalating critical decisions to finance leadership.
- Multi-scope Agility: You are comfortable holding a broad and diverse scope — regional, functional, and central — and can prioritize effectively without losing depth on any axis.
- AI & Automation Proficiency: You autonomously use AI tools and automation techniques to build workflows and accelerate analysis, always looking for opportunities to optimize processes without waiting for direction.
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